hello hey hi what's up hello hey hi what's up hello hey hi you know what's
up what's up sup hello hey hi yo what's up what up what's up how's tricks
how's things what's new with you hello hey hi what's up hello everybody how we
all doing today all right hello hello hello everybody my name is
Steve Ford and welcome to your English lesson today I have a really nice lesson
helping you to say hello in different ways so I really hope you enjoy this
lesson so let's take a look and see who's here who's in the house today I
see we have lots of people here already who are waiting for me thanks for
waiting yeah how am i doing how am i Julia I'm good good good and you how are
you doing I'm having my coffee what up hello hello everybody that has come and
joined this lesson thank you very much Raynald thank you very much mmm-hmm I
was just having my breakfast and now I'm just finishing off my coffee oh where is
our teacher I don't know I think I'll go get him mm-hmm anyway everybody I don't
have too much hello Todd toddy hello Allison banh Gio Brasil Noboa Taji
proposal Curacao no Brazil I think it's Boise 20 way to the dattaji
in Brazil so it's like 2:38 in the afternoon in Brazil yeah what's up yo
asam a lagoon for everybody who speaks Arabic here
in Dubai which is awesome that's great that's great
Assam alikoum and for all of the for all of the other people watching the show
that's great you know like doble was a divita if don't be Viet if you're here
and we also have to give a special shout out to say namaste and also I still need
to learn some Vietnamese hello from Afghanistan Wow
wow that's pretty amazing mmm guys I have to go quickly because I've got a
class in 20 minutes so we're going to we're gonna jump into the lesson and let
me just get everything ready
aha so Salaam Alec Somali come and hopefully this will be a good lesson
inshallah okay so in case you saw the description of this lesson today we're
going to be talking about different ways to say hello fast in English the first
one is quite a common one this one here so we can see it in its full form where
we say how have you been how have you been now in funnily people are gonna say
that a lot faster and they're gonna say how you been how you been hey how you
been so the bean here it takes on a short I sound and it becomes bin so you
can try that with me how you been how you been
that's a very friendly way of saying it's something you would say to a close
friend maybe that you haven't seen in a while
now if you want to answer that you could say I've been good you could also say it
as I was saying before the question something more quick than good
not bad can't I can't complain this is quite common here when somebody says I
can't complain it's because their life isn't fantastic but their life isn't
great so it's it's another way of saying not bad can't complain or I can't
complain it's a great one let's go to the next
one now in case you're talking to a friend and you want to know what they're
doing instead of saying hey what are you doing there's another popular way of
saying it here you could say what are you up to and if you want to say that
fast we'll try it at different speeds here you could say what you up to what
you up to what you what you what you up to
if you want to say it really fast the - where where are we here yeah the -
becomes a tough it takes on this schwa sound so check this out it becomes what
Jeptha what you up to what's you up to oh my god it's it's
almost like another language so you can try that slowly what you up to what you
up to what you up to what you up to what you up to what you up that you can go
really fast with it so what it what you up to today
what you up to today it becomes a whole different language
what's yep - okay let's go do the next one
okay cut cut the recording so somebody is asking me here is this the American
accent yes definitely the American accent and a lot of these you can use
them in their full form if you're talking to your boss and it really
depends on the business culture if you're talking to your teacher and when
you're talking to your friends you can use these in a more in a faster way yeah
more fluent way because that's the way that most people are gonna say what's up
to today what's you up - what's up - or what yep - mm-hmm okay so that that was
a great question let's let's go to the next one and then you could answer how
and then you could answer what you up to or what your what you up to
nothing much and if you want to say that really fast what happens often with the
ing sound is that the G we drop it and it becomes nothing nothing much so just
imagine that so you're right your friend okay
hey what you up to and then you say oh nothing much or nothing much you hear
the difference do you hear the difference nothing much nothing much and
then we'll go to the next one so that's another one of course this
does this is also very common so we have here how are you doing that's a very
common one but when people say it fast it becomes how you doing that's very New
York City are hey how are you doing how are you doing yo Mario how you doing how
you doing how you doing how are you doing you don't need to necessarily use
it that fast but it's important to know that's the way that a lot of native
speakers would use it and in response to that you could say good thanks or you
could just say good now a lot of students ask me why are people saying
good in response to how are you doing or how you doing when we all learn in a
English class that it should be well it should be the adverb a quick answer is
that good in this case is okay as well because you're using good as an
adjective that's my grammar that's my grammatical
explanation so good is very very common we use it all the time here in North
America good for everything good let's go to the next one
so instead of saying hi you could say hey hey Steve we got to get those
sunglasses on right I was like hey Steve hey John hey is very common here and
sometimes you might not even say the person's name if you know the person
quite well you might just say hey hey quite common okay time out
time time julia has has a good question here okay well cut that I got to get a
new chair by the way somebody was asking me a Julia is asking me if we can say
I'm fine you certainly can fine is a is a very good response that you can say as
well how you doing I'm fine I'm fine yeah we're fine yeah people still use
that it's not something as common as good Julia but yeah people still use it
okay so very good question Julia high-five and let's go to the next one
the next one that we have this is very so this one is very informal it's
completely so this one is very informal we have yo-yo oh that was so easy to say
it's so quick yo-yo that Street talk not everybody's going to use that but it's a
variation something that young people younger people will use maybe you've
heard that in movies
then we have this one you good yeah you so as I was saying before in some of my
previous examples as I was saying before in one of my previous examples good is
used and in this case we're using it in the question you good yeah you
that's very informal then we have this one here what's up what's up and you can
see the answer is the same as the question hey what's up hey what's up or
what's up hey what's up so you're answering with another
question which I think happens in other languages you let me know in your
comments and if we want to say that fast
there are variations of this so what's up could become what up and very fast
its sup sup sup and the answer is up is up so it becomes an entirely different
language ok time out time out time out Yasmine is asking what is the meaning of
yo-yo I think it's just a way of calling someone's attention yo like hey you and
then that becomes E and that becomes yo and that's why we use it there are other
variations I didn't want to I can edit this out of the video I don't know if
YouTube is gonna kill me for saying this but I know that black people if you
after Americans in movies they will say yo and then they will use the n-word I'm
not even gonna try and say it yeah I think it comes from African Americans
that's right and Sudhir makes a good point that this is not used in it's used
in text messages that's a very good point people will write this in text
messages to their friends but yeah you have to use it with caution these
informal ones you're not going to use in in an essay but I'm sure you know that
that's right that's right Sally so yeah formal neutral and informal very
very good you and you can use I'm fine in the American in the American language
but I think I'm good is more common that's a surprise to a lot of people you
say I'm fine I'm well mmm I'm good everybody uses I'm good okay let's go I
I don't have too much time okay and then we have saying goodbye so we can't
forget how to say goodbye we learned all these
ways of saying hello saying hello quickly and now we have to find a way to
say goodbye and there are so many ways to say goodbye the first one is a little
more formal when we say take care take care you too so you could use that one
maybe you've seen that before another one quite common see you later and note
how we can take you and when we say it faster we say yeah so it becomes see you
later see you later see you later
another way of saying that if you're if you want to say see you later another
way of saying that is see you around see you around the a kind of disappears
see you around yeah see you later so you can alternate between the two
there if you want to give some variety some spice to your speech and then we
have this one see you later alligator in a while crocodile maybe you've seen
this one before it obviously rhymes see you later alligator in a while crocodile
have you ever seen this as a way of saying goodbye let me know in your
comments
you could also say catch you later I will catch you later similar to I will
see you later so you can see that often we will take words that are understood
out of the way that we're saying so I will catch you later becomes catch you
later and how can you answer to that you could say yeah see ya catch you later
yeah see ya catch you later very popular yeah put that one in your pocket of
expressions words that we use all the time I'll catch you later that's a cool
one catch you later
and then we have this one here if you think you're going to see the person
again or you hope you see the person again yet you can say see you around
yeah see you later
instead of saying have a good week or have a good day have a good afternoon
this is a popular one here as well a very friendly way of saying have a nice
day week month have a good one you too have a good one
if you don't have too much time if you don't have too much time to say goodbye
some people they are someone of few words you could say later later
so that's see you later alligator in a while crocodile became later later
and the last one that we have here popular way of saying goodbye from the
1990s hip-hop music movement was peace out but nobody uses that anymore but you
could still hear peace yo peace peace that popular way for some people to say
goodbye okay time out let's see I've got some great questions here let's see what
you guys are asking me I've got just a few minutes so I'm more than happy to
answer your questions I'll put the see you later alligator
in a while crocodile I'm back every everybody seemed to really like that one
so what are you guys asking me somebody asked me if you can ask if you can say
so long so long sky no formal that's a more formal one so long farewell you
could but it's it's kind of formal let's see if there's anyone right somebody I
read those writing later as l8 l8r yeah high five yeah that's a good way of
saying it later later
and now somebody knows why their son uses peace peace peace somebody saying
how how may I help you how may I help you
well everybody I really hope that you enjoyed this lesson it was a pleasure
teaching you the many ways of saying hello and goodbye especially how native
speakers here use it very quickly and say it very fast and I hope that you can
say it more quickly more naturally I'm going to be on YouTube live that's going
to be on Saturday November 18th that is going to be at what time what time
that's going to be at 6 p.m. GMT I hope you can make it and if you want to
contact me you can contact me at the links below this video and I look
forward to our next lesson bye everybody
you're very welcome I hope to see you all tomorrow thanks for the flowers yeah
I hope that this lesson was useful for you see you later alligator
in a while crocodile
bye-bye bye-bye yeah let's go out with some music
hello so we know now we need to make a goodbye song yeah what's that goodbye
song sound like it was the peace song right oh maybe it's it's not the peace
song anymore okay but bye everybody well hope to see you
tomorrow at 6 p.m. GMT bye for now